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Italian doctor who called homosexuality a ‘health hazard’ cleared in defamation case
https://www.lifesitenews.com ^ | December 4, 2017 | Lisa Bourne

Posted on 12/05/2017 12:43:48 PM PST by NKP_Vet

December 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – An Italian Catholic doctor accused by LGBT activists of defamation after she highlighted in a Facebook post the skyrocketing rates of sexually transmitted disease among homosexuals has been found not guilty.

LGBT group Torino Pride had made the accusation against Dr. Silvana De Mari, alleging that in declaring homosexuality a “health hazard” she had defamed homosexuals.

De Mari, a surgeon and psychotherapist, was acquitted on the grounds that it would be impossible to ascertain who would have suffered injury because of her broad statement. De Mari said in her defense that it was clear that homosexuality was not a normal condition, referencing her own expertise, Breitbart reports.

“I have three specialties: psychotherapy, medicine and surgery,” she said. “I have been taking care of homosexual persons for 40 years.”

De Mari had stated in her original Facebook post:

The recent numerous epidemics of primary-secondary syphilis registered especially in Western Europe have as main risk factors: homosexuality (45–90%). ... As confirmed by literature, the co-infection of syphilis-HIV in homosexuals goes from 10% to 70% in many clinical studies. ... While we wait until the authors of these studies are accused of homophobia and expelled from their respective medical boards, we need to acknowledge that if the health hazard involved in male homo-erotic behavior is serious now, we can only imagine what it was like before antibiotics and condoms.

The Italian Public Prosecutor ruled De Mari’s statements did not comprise defamation since it would be impossible to identify the defamed parties, the decision coming after months of deliberation. De Mari, a 64-year-old doctor, psychotherapist and children’s author, had stated her theory on homosexuality publicly before, often in an uncompromising fashion.

But her stance became more of an issue after a Facebook post she made in January of this year on the disturbing rates of sexually transmitted diseases among active homosexuals.

The post prompted a call for an interview from Italian radio show La Zanzara, according to a Church Militant report, followed by heated response and two follow-up interviews.

In the course of speaking with the radio station, De Mari forthrightly discussed threats to freedom of speech from the LGBT movement and spoke in further detail about the serious damage homosexual acts do to the human body. She’d said as well that, “gays live a tragic condition.”

De Mari has also condemned pedophilia, telling the Catholic daily La Croce around the same time earlier his year that, "Pedophilia is expanding, and the victims are always younger and younger."

"Do you see what is happening today with our total indifference?" she queried. "Mankind has gone from papal infallibility to the infallibility of the American Psychiatric Association. If they establish that homosexuality isn't a disorder of nature, they can very well establish that neither is pedophilia."

LGBT activists accused De Mari of instigating social hatred and homophobia.

An Italian association of LGBT lawyers and activists demanded De Mari's suspension from the Torino Board of Physicians for "employing her skills against the right of homosexual patients." An online petition supported the demand, and the Board of Physicians would begin disciplinary action against her in January.

De Mari’s Facebook page was also blocked, and LGBT activists contacted her editor to get her dismissed.

Word then surfaced in mid-March of the defamation investigation.

The lawyer representing Torino Pride in the complaint against De Mari, Nicolò Ferraris, has maintained De Mari had no right to state an idea that many people find offensive.

“The offenses pronounced publicly by De Mari are aimed at LGBT movements and not only at LGBT people,” he said, “and they are not opinions but offenses.”


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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; liberalfascism
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“The truth shall set you free” - John 8:32
1 posted on 12/05/2017 12:43:48 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

That makes the US Center for Disease Control hopeless homophobes as well


2 posted on 12/05/2017 12:44:40 PM PST by PGR88
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To: NKP_Vet

Isn’t a wrecked rectum also a health hazard?


3 posted on 12/05/2017 12:46:30 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: NKP_Vet

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.


4 posted on 12/05/2017 12:51:11 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: doug from upland

Rectum? Dang near killed him.


5 posted on 12/05/2017 12:51:14 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Less gay everyday concerning homosexuality.


6 posted on 12/05/2017 12:52:22 PM PST by onedoug
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To: NKP_Vet
"... he said, “and they are not opinions but offenses.” Wait a minute, hammerhead - the opinions stated are fact! It may seem offensive to people like you (macro-aggression?) simply because of your mental deficiencies/disorders - but I know your opinions/offensives don't matter at all to rational people...
7 posted on 12/05/2017 12:53:10 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: PGR88

How could the doctor defasme homosexuals? Homosexual behavior is self-defaming.


8 posted on 12/05/2017 12:53:12 PM PST by liberalism is suicide
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To: NKP_Vet

Bravo Dr De Mari!


9 posted on 12/05/2017 12:53:56 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: NKP_Vet

Most homosexuals were sexually abused as children.

They want to normalize their behavior to attain easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN.

>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/<

On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.

The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual?

Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.

>https://stream.org/yes-childhood-sexual-abuse-often-contribute-homosexuality/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Newsfeed&utm_term=original+content&utm_content=childsexualabusehomosexuality<

...it is well-known that men who were abused as children are much more likely than the average population to abuse other children as adults. As summarized in a 2001 article in the British Journal of Psychology:

Among 747 males the risk of being a perpetrator was positively correlated with reported sexual abuse victim experiences … A high percentage of male subjects abused in childhood by a female relative became perpetrators. Having been a victim was a strong predictor of becoming a perpetrator, as was an index of parental loss in childhood.


10 posted on 12/05/2017 12:56:32 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: NKP_Vet

The Gaystapo made its point: you oppose their pernicious agenda at a great cost, even if you “win” in court.


11 posted on 12/05/2017 12:57:16 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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Let's review Human biology and sexuality:

VAGINA

• has an acidic environment which hinders bacterial and viral growth

RECTUM

• has an alkaline environment, which promotes bacterial and viral growth

VAGINA

• is lined by a thick layer of stratified squamous epithelium which is resistant to tearing

RECTUM

• is lined by a thin layer of simple cuboidal epithelium which can tear easily with unnatural forces

VAGINA

• secretes a lubricant during intercourse

RECTUM

• does not secrete a lubricant, only expels feces

In conclusion, your butt hole is an exit cavity not an entrance cavity.

THE END

12 posted on 12/05/2017 1:00:21 PM PST by PROCON (It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled.)
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she highlighted in a Facebook post the skyrocketing rates of sexually transmitted disease among homosexuals

To liberals, truth is a mental health hazard.

13 posted on 12/05/2017 1:02:02 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: NKP_Vet

But we are living in a post-truth world.


14 posted on 12/05/2017 1:09:32 PM PST by henkster
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To: NKP_Vet

Any time you use something not the way nature intended, you run a big risk.


15 posted on 12/05/2017 1:09:46 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: NKP_Vet

Sorta fits the mold to suppress actual facts. Sweden is doing much the same by trying to suppress association of crimes with those who are the majority of perps (can you say Muslim)?


16 posted on 12/05/2017 1:25:19 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: NKP_Vet

bkmk


17 posted on 12/05/2017 1:45:25 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Just happens that I tried to look up the NARTH.org website (North American Assn for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), previously a prime source for data on the harms of homosexual behavior and the methods of therapy. Search results full of propaganda sites that prominently blasted NARTH for “hate” that “purports” therapy, etc. The founder of NARTH, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, died suddenly earlier this year and his organization is no longer active, but an archive is available.
Family Research Council also used to be a very valuable resource on this topic. Not so much after the Obama years.
18 posted on 12/05/2017 2:46:22 PM PST by Missouri gal
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To: G Larry
G Larry wrote: ~ https://stream.org/yes-childhood-sexual-abuse-often-contribute-homosexuality/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Newsfeed&utm_term=original+content&utm_content=childsexualabusehomosexuality I hesitated to open the link provided, but as the author says,: "It is truly distasteful to speak of such things, but speak about them we must, given the ever-increasing scope of gay activism, especially in our children’s schools." Good post.
19 posted on 12/05/2017 2:53:11 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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https://stream.org/yes-childhood-sexual-abuse-often-contribute-homosexuality/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Newsfeed&utm_term=original+content&utm_content=childsexualabusehomosexuality


20 posted on 12/05/2017 2:53:34 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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